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THE  HARPER  CENTENNIAL 

1817-1917 


TWELVE  HUNDRED  AND  FIFTY  COPIES  OF  THIS 
BOOK  HAVE  BEEN  PRINTED  FROM  TYPE 
BY  HARPER  fcf  BROTHERS  FOR  PRIVATE 
DISTRIBUTION   AMONG    THEIR  FRIENDS 


SENECA'S  MORALS. 

BY  WAY  OF  ABSTRACT. 


TO  WHICH  IS  ADDED, 


A  DISCOURSE, 


UNDER  THE  TITLE  Of 


AN  AFTER-THOUGHT. 


BY  SIR  ROGER  L'ESTRANGE,  K*t. 


FIFTH  AMERICAN  EDITION. 


XEW-YORK: 

PUBLISHED  BY  EVERT  DUYCKINCK, 

NO.  68  WATER-STREET. 

J.  k  J.  Harper,  printers. 


1817. 


TITLE-PAGE  OF  THE  FIRST  BOOK  TO  BEAR  THE  HARPER  IMPRINT 


THE 
HARPER  CENTENNIAL 

1817—1917 

A  Few  of  the  Greetings 
and    Congratulations 


HARPER    y    BROTHERS    PUBLISHERS 
NEW    YORK    AND    LONDON 


COPYRIGHT,   1917,  BY   HARPER    &    BROTHERS 


PRINTED    IN    THE    UNITED    STATES   OF   AMERICA 
PUBLISHED   DECEMBER,   1917 

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LIST   OF   CONTENTS 

Foreword      .......        xi 

PART  I 

Letters  from 

The  President  of  the  United  States                  .         3 

The  Governor  of  the  State  of  New  York        .         4 

The  Mayor  of  the  City  of  New  York    .          .         5 

PART  II 

Letters  from  Authors 

W.  D.  Howells      ...                                       9 

Henry  van  Dyke 

10 

Thomas  Hardy 

12 

Mary  E.  Wilkins  Freeman 

13 

Nicholas  Murray  Butler 

14 

Arthur  T.  Hadley 

15 

Gilbert  Parker 

16 

Rex  Beach    . 

17 

Zane  Grey    . 

18 

Basil  King    . 

19 

Kate  Langley  Bosher     . 

21 

John  Bassett  Moore 

22 

Henry  Fairfield  Osborn 

23 

John  H.  Finley 

23 

Rupert  Hughes 

24 

Eden  Phillpotts     . 

25 

Katharine  Lee  Bates 

26 

William  Lyon  Phelps     . 

26 

C.  D.  Gibson 

26 

Robert  Grant 

27 

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LIST   OF    CONTENTS— Continued 

Alice  Brown           .          .                                        .27 

Eleanor  H.  Porter 

27 

Emerson  Hough    . 

28 

Hayden  Carruth    . 

29 

Ethelbert  Talbot 

30 

Garrett    P.    Serviss 

31 

Felix   E.    Schelling 

32 

Honore  Willsie 

33 

Zona  Gale     . 

35 

Edith  Barnard  Delano 

36 

Abraham  Cahan    . 

37 

Ellis  Parker  Butler 

38 

Harrison  S.  Morris 

39 

John  Luther  Long 

40 

John  Kendrick  Banks 

41 

Johnston  Grosvenor 

42 

Lilian  Whiting 

43 

Wilbur   D.    Nesbit 

44 

Burdette  G.  Lewis 

45 

A.  J.  Dittenhoefer 

46 

Annie  Nathan  Meyer 

47 

Marjorie  Benton   Cook 

e 

47 

Ellen  Douglas  Deland 

48 

Raymond  S.  Spears 

49 

George  Madden  Martin 

51 

Jeannette  Marks 

.       52 

Philip  Curtiss 

.       52 

Henry  Wallace  Phillips 

.       53 

Caroline  Ticknor 

.       54 

Charles  F.  Lummis 

55 

Frances  Aymar  Mathews 

.       56 

Abbie  Phillips  Walker 

.       57 

LIST   OF    CONTENTS— Continued 

George  P.  Upton            ...                    .58 

William  T.  Ellis     . 

59 

W.  D.  McCrackan 

60 

Channing  Pollock 

61 

W.  J.  Holland 

62 

Samuel  Harden  Church 

64 

Don  C.  Seitz 

65 

Annie  Fellows  Johnston 

66 

President  Sabin 

67 

Joseph  A.  Altsheler 

68 

Edward  Stratemeyer 

68 

PART  III 

Letters  from  Publishers 

G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons     .                                        .71 

Houghton  Mifflin  Company 

73 

Charles   Scribner's   Sons 

74 

E.  P.  Dutton  &  Company 

75 

The  Century  Co. 

76 

Ginn  &  Company 

77 

J.  B.  Lippincott  Company 

78 

Frederick  A.  Stokes  Company 

79 

Macmillan  8b  Co.,  Ltd.    . 

80 

Longmans,  Green  8b  Co. 

81 

Hodder  8b  Stoughton 

82 

Chatto  and  Windus 

83 

J.  M.  Dent  8c  Sons,  Ltd. 

84 

Sampson  Low,  Marston  8b  Co.,  Ltd. 

85 

American  Library  Association 

86 

Grosset  8e   Dunlap 

87 

George  W.  Jacobs  8b  Company 

.       87 

LIST   OF    CONTENTS— Continued 

Yale  University  Press    .....       88 

Collier's         .... 

89 

Scientific  American 

90 

The  New  Republic 

91 

Sir  Isaac  Pitman  &  Sons,  Ltd. 

92 

Librairie  Hachette  8b  Cie. 

93 

Librairie  Larousse 

94 

Vilhelm  Tryde       .... 

95 

Berger-Levrault     . 

96 

Ulrico  Hoepli 

97 

P.  Salvat      .... 

97 

"Libreria  del  Colegio" 

98 

Robert  M.  McBride  85  Company 

99 

B.  W.  Huebsch     . 

100 

Paul  Elder  Bookrooms 

101 

Edward  J.  Clode 

102 

The  Page  Company 

103 

The  America  Press 

104 

Moffat,  Yard  85  Company 

104 

Leopold  Honore 

105 

Plon-Nourrit  85  Cie. 

105 

W.  A.  Petri 

105 

C.  M.  van  Stockum 

105 

Maison  Alfred  Mame  et  Fils 

106 

Felix  Alcan  85  R.  Lisbonne 

106 

Perrin  &  Cie. 

106 

FOREWORD 

It  was  in  March,  1817,  that  James  Harper  and 
his  younger  brother  John,  both  practical  printers,  be- 
gan business  for  themselves  in  a  little  room  on  Dover 
Street,  New  York  City.  It  was  in  August,  1817, 
that  they  printed  "Seneca's  Morals,"  in  an  edition 
of  two  thousand  copies,  for  the  elder  Duyckinck. 
The  title-page  of  the  first  book  to  bear  the  Harper 
imprint  is  reproduced  in  this  volume,  while  the  entire 
book  has  been  reprinted  with  various  reproductions 
in  a  beautiful  limited  edition,  a  feature  of  the  Harper 
Centennial  year.  James  and  John  Harper  were  the 
first  members  of  the  firm.  The  two  younger  brothers, 
Joseph  Wesley  and  Fletcher,  worked  as  compositors 
upon  the  book.  The  former  became  a  member  of 
the  firm  in  1823,  the  latter  in  1825,  but  the  title  of 
the  firm  continued  to  be  J.  8b  J.  Harper  until  1833, 
when  it  was  changed  to  Harper  85  Brothers. 

Before  this  change,  the  increasing  business  of 
the  young  firm  had  made  larger  quarters  necessary, 
and  in  1825  these  were  found  on  Cliff  Street,  on  a  site 
included  in  the  Harper  holdings  ever  since.  The  sub- 
sequent development  of  a  great  business  is  a  part  of 
national  history.  An  intimate  record  is  to  be  found  in 
Mr.  J.  Henry  Harper's  book,  "The  House  of  Harper," 
which  amplifies  outstanding  events  like  the  birth  of 
Harper's  Magazine  in  June,  1850,  and  the  destruction 
of  the  entire  Harper  plant  by  fire  in  December,  1853, 
which  was  promptly  followed  by  the  erection  of  the 
present  buildings,  the  first  important  example  of 
"fireproof  construction"  in  New  York. 

The  century  of  literary  achievement  which 
the  House  of  Harper  represents  began  with  Seneca 


and  closes  with  the  President  of  the  United  States. 
The  Directors  of  Harper  &  Brothers  count  it  a  happy 
omen  that  the  new  Documentary  Edition  of  President 
Wilson's  "History  of  the  American  People"  should 
signalize  the  close  of  the  first  century  of  the  House 
and  the  beginning  of  the  second. 

There  is  an  obvious  temptation  to  dwell  upon 
other  significant  undertakings  and  to  emphasize  the 
development  of  the  Harper  list,  which  has  increased 
until  the  Centennial  year  has  witnessed  a  production 
of  books  far  in  excess  of  any  previous  record  in  the 
history  of  the  House.  But  the  purpose  of  this  foreword 
is  to  express  in  definite  form  a  deep  and  lasting  appre- 
ciation of  the  greetings  and  cordial  messages  which 
have  come  from  authors  and  publishers  and  readers 
and  the  press  on  the  announcement  of  the  Harper 
Centennial. 

It  has  not  been  possible  to  collect  and  publish 
all  these  messages,  which  have  ranged  from  spoken 
words  and  telegrams  to  eloquent  verse,  but  the 
selections  which  appear  in  this  volume  show  abundant 
reasons  for  the  gratitude  and  sense  of  responsibility 
with  which  the  House  of  Harper  enters  upon  its 
second  century.  To  those  whose  felicitations  for 
past  and  present  and  new  assurances  for  the  future 
have  been  so  inspiring  a  feature  of  this  Centennial, 
the  Directors  of  Harper  &  Brothers  offer  their  grate- 
ful acknowledgments  and  their  pledge  of  larger 
achievements  in  time  to  come. 


PART    I 


Letters  from 

The  President  of  the  United  States 
The  Governor  of  the  State  of  New  York 
The  Mayor  of  the  City  of  New  York 


THE    WHITE    HOUSE 
WASHINGTON 


20  November,  1917 
My  dear  Sirs: 

May  I  not  convey  to  you  my  warm 
congratulations  on  your  centennial  anniversary  and 
an  expression  of  my  sincere  hope  that  for  another 
hundred  years  the  honorable  traditions  of  the  house 
may  be  maintained,  to  the  benefit  alike  of  those 
who  read  and  of  those  who  write? 


Cordially  and  sincerely  yours, 


Messrs.  Harper  8b  Brothers, 

Franklin  Square,  New  York  City. 


STATE    OF    NEW    YORK 

EXECUTIVE   CHAMBER 

ALBANY 


November  23,  1917 
Gentlemen: 

Permit  me  to  extend  to  Messrs.  Harper  & 
Brothers  my  congratulations  and  cordial  greetings 
on  the  occasion  of  their  centennial  anniversary. 

It  is  of  particular  interest  to  me  to  realize 
that  the  house  of  Harper  has  served  the  cause  of 
literature  in  this  State  for  one  hundred  years  in  an 
association  with  the  leading  writers  of  three  genera- 
tions— an  association  which  has  never  been  more  pro- 
ductive than  to-day. 


Cordially  yours, 


CITY  OF  NEW  YORK 
OFFICE  OF  THE  MAYOR 


December  14,  1917 

Gentlemen: 

I  am  very  happy  to  congratulate  Harper  8b 
Brothers  on  having  reached  the  one  hundred  year 
mark.  The  record  of  your  institution  is  a  credit,  not 
only  to  the  City  of  New  York,  but  to  the  nation. 
You  set  an  admirable  standard  on  the  day  your 
house  was  founded  for  high  ideals  and  the  diffusion 
among  our  people  of  the  best  in  English  literature. 

I  most  earnestly  hope  that  success  may  con- 
tinue to  attend  the  course  of  Harper  8b  Brothers. 

Very  sincerely  yours, 

JOHN  PURROY  MITCHEL 

Mayor 


Harper  8b  Brothers 

Franklin  Square 

New  York  City 


PART   II 

Letters  from  Authors 


New  York,  1917 

Dear  Messrs.  Harper  6s  Brothers: 

To  one  who  has  only  reached  his  eightieth 
birthday,  the  occurrence  of  your  hundredth  anni- 
versary seems  an  event  of  world  importance  even  in 
a  time  when  the  world  seems  gone  mad.  Your 
great  and  honored  name  still  stands  for  sanity  and 
hope;  that  torch  of  yours  which  shines  from  such 
an  infinity  of  title-pages  still  passes  from  hand 
to  hand,  and  will  remain  aglow  when  the  fires  of 
Death  now  lighting  the  innumerable  battle-fields  of 
yonder  sad  old  world  are  extinguished  in  blood.  I 
congratulate  you  on  this  beginning  of  your  immor- 
tality, and  may  we,  your  brotherly  band  of  authors, 
find  you  publishing  our  books  a  hundred,  a  thousand, 
years  from  now. 

Yours  sincerely, 

W.   D.   HOWELLS 


AVALON, 
PRINCETON,    N.    J. 


November  30,  1917 
Gentlemen: 

There  is  good  reason  for  rejoicing 
and  congratulation  in  the  fact  that  the  House  of 
Harpers  has  lived  and  nourished  for  one  hundred 
years  in  these  United  States. 

It  is  not  merely  the  longevity  that  counts. 
Methuselah  has  always  seemed  to  me  one  of  the  least 
interesting  of  the  patriarchs,  because  his  fame  rests 
merely  upon  the  number  of  his  years,  and  so  far  as  I 
can  see,  he  did  nothing  in  his  life  that  is  worth  remem- 
bering. But  the  House  of  Harpers  has  not  only  lived 
long.  It  has  filled  a  whole  century  with  useful  and 
honorable  work.  It  has  made  a  fine  record  of  friend- 
ship with  American  authors  and  fair  dealing  with 
British  authors  in  those  old  days  of  literary  piracy 
when  equitable  conduct  was  not  the  rule.  Other 
congratulants  will  doubtless  make  mention  of  the 
famous  publications  and  enterprises  of  the  House. 
This  list  will  be  the  proof  and  justification  of  the 
general  feeling  which  is  shared  by  all  thoughtful 
people,  that  the  Harpers  have  rendered  a  great  and 
inestimable  service  both  to  the  writers  and  to  the 
readers  of  our  country. 


10 


My  own  first  connection  with  the  House  was 
in  1879,  when  I  went  out,  with  the  encouragement 
of  Mr.  Alden,  to  what  was  then  the  Far  West,  to  see 
and  to  write  up  the  big  wheat  farms  on  the  Red  River 
Valley  in  Dakota  and  Manitoba.  Incidentally  I  went 
beyond  that  for  a  hunting  trip  in  the  Bad  Lands  on 
the  Little  Missouri  River.  The  farms  were  written 
up  in  an  article  for  the  Magazine,  but  the  story  of  the 
hunting  trip  has  never  been  told. 

This  article  in  Harper's  was  my  first  contri- 
bution to  any  magazine.  Since  that  time  a  great  deal 
of  my  work  has  gone  through  Mr.  Alden's  hands  to 
the  printer.  The  House  of  Harpers  has  launched 
four  books  of  mine.  Among  these  "The  Story  of  the 
Other  Wise  Man"  is  the  one  which  has  had  the  most 
interesting  adventures.  Always  I  have  found  the 
House  most  fair,  considerate,  and  generous  in  its 
dealings.  Therefore  I  mingle  gratitude  with  gratula- 
tions  on  this  centennial  occasion. 

Cordially  and  sincerely  yours, 

HENRY   VAN    DYKE 


Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers, 

Franklin  Square,  New  York  City. 


11 


MAX    GATE 

DORCHESTER 


May  29th,  1917 


Mr.  Thomas  Hardy  has  received  with  pleasure 
the  Messrs.  Harpers'  card  reminding  him  of  the  com- 
pletion of  their  centenary  as  publishers.  Although 
aware  that  they  had  handed  on  the  torch  for  a  good 
many  decades  it  had  not  struck  him  that  the  period 
could  be  so  long  as  it  proves  to  be.  He  quite  recipro- 
cates their  good  wishes,  and  hopes  that  another  such 
century  of  productivity  will  fall  to  their  lot,  and  that 
they  will  be  essentially  unaffected  by  the  shade  of 
war  now  thrown  over  both  continents. 


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Metuchen,  N.  J. 

May  14th,  1917 

Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers 

Gentlemen: 

I  thank  you  most  warmly  for  your 
greeting  upon  entering  the  Centennial  Year  of  the 
House  of  Harper  85  Brothers.  Please  accept  my 
greeting  in  return,  and  allow  me  to  express  my  deep 
appreciation  of  your  kindness  and  hospitality  to 
me  ever  since  my  first  story,  "Two  Old  Lovers," 
timidly  approached  Miss  Mary  L.  Booth  in  the 
Bazar  office  to  be  welcomed  warmly,  and  invited  to 
stay. 

I  feel  privileged  in  regarding  you  as  my  pub- 
lishers, and  honored  to  be  considered  one  of  your 
authors. 

With  very  best  wishes  for  your  welfare  and 
prosperity, 

MARY   E.   WILKINS   FREEMAN 


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COLUMBIA    UNIVERSITY 
IN  THE  CITY  OF   NE1W  YORK 

PRESIDENT'S   ROOM 


May  10,  1917 
Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York. 
Gentlemen: 

I  have  great  pleasure  in  acknowl- 
edging the  greetings  of  your  house  on  the  occasion 
of  its  entering  its  centennial  year. 

It  is  my  good  fortune  to  have  a  peculiarly  warm 
feeling  of  interest  for  the  house  of  Harper,  because  as 
is  recorded  in  the  Memoirs  of  my  Grandfather,  Rev. 
Dr.  Nicholas  Murray,  published  by  the  house  more 
than  fifty  years  ago,  his  first  employment  on  coming  to 
America  was  with  the  newly  established  firm  of  Harper 
&  Brothers.  He  was  privileged  to  be  taken  into  the 
family  of  one  of  the  brothers  who  founded  the  firm, 
and  through  the  relationship  so  established  maintained, 
until  his  death  in  1861,  a  very  close  intimacy  with  the 
house  and  its  members. 

With  every  good  wish  for  the  century  that  is 
now  about  to  open,  I  am, 

Faithfully  yours, 
NICHOLAS   MURRAY   BUTLER 


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YALE  UNIVERSITY 

NEW  HAVEN.  CONNECTICUT 


May  11,  1917 
Dear  Sirs: 

I  beg  that  you  will  accept  my  cor- 
dial congratulation  to  the  House  of  Harper  on  the 
century  of  existence  which  it  has  completed,  and  an 
assurance  of  continued  good  will  for  the  century  that 
is  to  follow. 

Very  sincerely, 

ARTHUR  T.  HADLEY 


Messrs.  Harper  8b  Brothers, 

Franklin  Square,  New  York  City. 


15 


NEW  YORK 

25th  June,  1917 
Gentlemen: 

I  have  received  from  Harpers  the 
announcement  of  their  Centennial  Year,  and  I 
appreciate  with  a  full  heart  their  friendly  greetings. 
My  first  contribution  to  Harpers'  publications  was 
made  in  1891,  and  since  then  our  association  has 
been  most  constant  and  sympathetic.  Courtesy,  con- 
sideration and  understanding  have  marked  their 
attitude  toward  me,  and  it  has  been  the  great  pride 
of  my  literary  life  that  my  work  has  found  a  home  in 
Harpers'  Magazine  and  has  carried  Harpers'  imprint. 
Over  long  years  I  have  had  intensely  cordial  relations 
with  Henry  Mills  Alden  whose  apprehending  and 
friendly  mind  and  high  gift  of  literary  prescience 
were  most  helpful  to  me;  and  those  happy  conditions 
have  been  continued  with  the  succession  to  his  im- 
mense activity  and  control. 

The  House  of  Harper  has  played  a  great  part 
in  the  literary,  educational  and  national  history  of 
this  country,  and  the  people  of  the  many  states  of 
the  Union  owe  it  a  debt  beyond  all  counting.  How- 
ever, uprightness,  energy  and  enterprise  have  been 
ever  present  in  their  material  affairs  and  one  can 
drink  the  cup  of  congratulation  with  no  reserve. 
They  have  given  home  to  a  great  congregation  of  au- 
thors and  in  the  forward  march  to  recognition  their 
name  has  been  powerful  and  persuasive.  May  they 
go  on  for  another  hundred  years! 

Yours  Sincerely, 

GILBERT   PARKER 


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NEW  YORK 


October  4th,  1917 

Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers, 

Franklin  Square,  New  York  City 

Dear  Sirs: 

I  am  taking  the  occasion  of  the 
announcement  of  your  hundredth  anniversary  to 
extend  to  you  my  heartiest  good  wishes  and  to  hope 
that  the  house  of  Harper  &  Brothers  will  prosper  in 
equal  measure  for  the  next  hundred  years. 

My  experience  as  a  book  writer,  extending  over 
a  period  of  about  ten  years,  has  been  very  pleasant, 
but  the  pleasantest  memory,  by  far,  that  I  retain  is 
the  memory  of  my  association  with  the  house  of 
Harper  8b  Brothers.  I  am  sure  that  my  experience  is 
only  typical  of  that  of  other  authors,  and  that  their 
best  wishes  are  quite  as  hearty  and  sincere  as  mine. 

Faithfully  yours, 

REX   BEACH 


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COTTAGE    POINT 
LACKAWAXEN,    PENNSYLVANIA 

Harper  8b  Brothers,  June  10,  1917 

New  York  City 

Gentlemen  and  dear  Friends: 

Your  Centennial  card  made  a  very 
personal  appeal  to  me.  Ever  since  I  was  a  boy  I  have 
known  the  great  House  of  Harper.  When  I  left 
college  to  abandon  my  profession  and  answer  to  an 
irresistible  call  to  write  I  dared  to  aspire  to  Harper 
&  Brothers.  And  several  times  during  those  dark 
years  of  early  effort  I  climbed  the  old  iron  stairs  on 
Franklin  Square  with  unquenchable  hope,  only  to 
stumble  down  again  with  dim  eyes.  But  the  House 
stood  there,  old  and  solid,  like  its  reputation;  and  I 
had  a  way  of  going  back. 

It  is  something  splendid  to  feel  my  fortunes  will 
be  linked  with  the  House  of  Harper — with  the  history 
of  those  founders  and  successors  and  great  writers  who 
made  the  name  first  of  publishers ;  and  of  those  keen 
modern  men  who  have  kept  the  fame  and  increased  the 
business,  and  who  will  make  Harper  &  Brothers  the 
greatest  publishing  company  in  the  world. 

It  is  something  splendid  for  me  to  call  them 
friends,  and  to  assure  them  that  if  I  live  I  will  meet 
my  great  obligation  by  some  day  working  to  a  place 
in  literature  where  I  shall  be  indispensable  to  them 
and  to  their  house.  With  me  that  is  an  earnest  and 
inflexible  ambition. 

Gentlemen,  my  congratulations,  my  best 
wishes,  my  hopes,  my  sincere  assurance,  and  my  faith- 
ful service! 

Truly  yours, 

ZANE   GREY 


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1     BERKELEY    STREET 
CAMBRIDGE,     MASSACHUSETTS 


May  15th,  1917 
Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers 

Dear  Sirs: 

In  thanking  you  for  your  beautiful 
Centennial  card  of  greetings  I  beg  to  offer  my  sincere 
congratulations  to  the  House  on  its  completion  of  so 
long  and  splendid  a  record.  In  this  changing  America 
it  is  given  to  very  few  institutions  of  any  kind  to 
survive  a  hundred  years,  especially  when  the  impulse 
of  life  is  as  vigorous  in  the  hundredth  as  it  was  in  the 
first.  I  am  old  enough  to  look  back  over  nearly  a  half 
of  the  period,  and  to  note  how  much  of  my  own  men- 
tal development  has  been  connected  with  Harper's 
Magazine,  of  which  I  have  been  an  unremitting  reader 
ever  since  I  have  been  able  to  read  anything.  Well 
do  I  remember  the  yearnings  and  the  longings  I  used 
to  have  to  appear  in  its  pages,  though  with  no  great 
confidence  that  so  heavenly  a  bliss  could  ever  be 
mine.  I  think  it  was  about  the  time  "The  Laodi- 
cean" was  coming  out,  which  must  have  been  in  the 
very  late  seventies,  that  this  "Sehnsucht"  on  my  part 
took  the  form  of  a  definite  ambition.  Not  that  it 
seemed  like  one  that  could  be  realized  even  then,  but 
there  it  was.  Proud  as  I  am  of  having  worked  it  out 
I  am  bound  to  admit  that  I  could  never  have  done  it 
without  the  kindness  and  encouragement  of  the 
present  members  of  the  House. 


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To  the  present  members  of  the  House  I  should 
like  to  offer  my  humble  tribute  of  admiration  and 
gratitude.  They  are  worthy  successors  to  those  who 
have  gone  before.  I  like  to  think  that  my  connection 
with  them  has  been  so  largely  on  terms  of  real  friend- 
ship, and  that  with  the  signing  of  our  present  contract 
it  will  probably  go  on  for  as  many  years  as  I  shall 
write.  We  have  had  our  little  discussions  from  time  to 
time,  but  even  they  have  been,  as  I  heard  a  speaker 
at  a  public  meeting  say  a  short  time  ago,  not  enough 
to  impair  friendship  but  only  to  make  you  nervous. 
In  any  case  my  feeling  with  regard  to  the  House  is 
of  the  warmest  and  most  loyal.  As  to  my  own  posi- 
tion within  its  hospitable  fold  I  can  only  feel  as  they 
must  do  who  are  admitted  to  the  lowlier  seats  in 
Paradise — it  is  a  great  deal  to  be  within  the  pearly 
gates  at  all. 

With  renewed  congratulations,  and  every  wish 
that  we  may  all  be  present  at  the  next  Centennial 
in  2017,  believe  me,  dear  sirs 

Yours  faithfully 

BASIL  KING 


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1817         ^StMnm         1917 


THE  INSIGNIA 

BY 
KATE   LANGLEY   BOSHER 

Hands  uphold  and  Light  aloft! 
Clear  the  meaning  and  the  message, 
Shining,  gleaming,  urging  onward, 
Steady  flaming — swift  upleaping. 
Of  triumphant,  splendid  dreaming 
Did  it  presage. 

Through  the  years  hands  ever  higher! 
Through  the  years  Light  ever  widening. 
Shining  clearer  with  the  blowing 
Of  the  varying  winds  of  fortune, 
Dauntless,  it  retained  its  dreaming, 
Yielding  nothing! 

Through  the  hundred  years  of  striving 
Never  has  the  Light  been  lowered. 
Never  dimmed,  the  path  of  honor 
Ne'er  was  shadowed  by  its  fading. 
Staunchly,  bravely,  hands  upheld  it, 
Faith  empowered. 

Clean  strong  hands  to  hold  the  Light, 
Clear  white  Light  for  future  following, 
Is  the  creed  of  coming  years, 
Is  the  goal  for  which  is  striving. 
Then,  unflinching,  can  be  faced 
Fortune's  flaunting. 


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267  West  73d  Street, 
New  York,  May  11,  1917 


Messrs.  Harper  8b  Brothers, 

Franklin  Square,  New  York 

Dear  Sirs: 

I  have  just  received  the  announce- 
ment of  your  entrance  upon  your  Centennial  Year. 
Let  me  extend  to  you  my  cordial  congratulations.  I 
desire  to  do  this  because  of  long  and  valued  associ- 
ations. One  of  my  pleasantest  early  recollections 
is  the  regular  reception  and  reading  of  Harper's 
Magazine.  Another  is  the  enjoyment  derived  from 
the  perusal  of  the  large  descriptive  catalogue  which 
you  published  containing  much  biographical  and 
critical  matter.  As  a  boy,  I  knew  its  contents  from 
cover  to  cover. 

Believe  me  to  be,  with  best  wishes  for  your 
future  prosperity, 

Very  faithfully  yours, 

JOHN  BASSETT  MOORE 


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THE   AMERICAN   MUSEUM   OF   NATURAL   HISTORY 
NEW    YORK 

25  May,  1917 


Professor  Henry  Fairfield  Osborn  extends  to 
Messrs  Harper  &  Brothers  in  their  centennial  year  his 
warm  felicitations  and  cordial  greetings.  He  recalls 
the  many  great  services  to  literature  rendered  by 
Messrs.  Harper  Brothers  and  trusts  that  their  broad- 
ening and  elevating  influence  may  extend  far  into  the 
future. 


THE    UNIVERSITY    OF    THE    STATE    OF    NEW    YORK 


Mr.  Finley  wishes  to  express  his  appreciation 
upon  the  receipt  of  the  announcement  of  the  Cen- 
tennial Anniversary  of  Messrs.  Harper  85  Brothers 
and  the  friendly  message  which  it  conveys.  He  takes 
this  occasion  to  extend  best  wishes  for  continued 
prosperity. 

Albany,  N.  Y., 

May  tenth,  1917 


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RUPERT    HUGHES 

148    STATE    STREET 

ALBANY,    N.    Y. 


Rupert  Hughes  begs  to  acknowledge  with 
thanks  the  greetings  of  Messrs.  Harper  8b  Brothers  on 
the  occasion  of  their  hundredth  anniversary,  and  to 
congratulate  them  on  not  only  attaining  the  century 
mark,  but  of  deserving  to  reach  it,  and  many  more. 
From  his  experience  of  their  energy  and  courtesy  and 
intelligence  and  cooperation  with  their  authors,  he 
feels  safe  in  saying  that  never  during  the  past  hundred 
years  have  the  destinies  of  the  house  been  in  better 
hands.  He  is  proud  to  be  numbered  among  the 
fortunate  few  permitted  to  dwell  in  the  house  of  Har- 
per, and  is  endeavoring  by  good  behavior  and  humble 
demeanor  to  keep  his  chair  at  the  fireside. 


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Torquay,  England, 

28  May,  1917 

Gentlemen: 

I  beg  to  acknowledge  your  communica- 
tion received  to-day  and  to  add  my  heartiest  con- 
gratulations to  the  chorus  that  must  now  be  sounding 
in  your  ears.  May  the  cooperation  and  friendly  re- 
lations that  have  for  a  century  obtained  between 
your  great  firm  and  the  authors  of  this  country 
continue  so  to  obtain  through  the  generations  to 
come;  and  may  we  some  day  have  the  national 
intelligence  to  support  a  magazine  like  "Harpers," 
still  so  pre-eminently  ahead  of  anything  we  can  show 
in  this  country. 

I  wish  you  all  good  upon  your  Centennial 
Anniversary  and  may  the  time  to  come,  when,  side 
by  side,  our  nations  have  defeated  the  powers  of  the 
pit,  see  your  relations  with  us  extended  and  an 
ever  increasing  amity  obtaining  between  Harper  & 
Brothers  and  the  writers  of  this  Empire. 

I  am  cordially  yours, 

EDEN   PHILLPOTTS 


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WELLESLEY    COLLEGE 
WELLESLEY,    MASSACHUSETTS 

May  14,  1917 

Miss  Katharine  Lee  Bates  presents  her  con- 
gratulations to  Messrs.  Harper  85  Brothers  upon  their 
century  of  high  achievement,  and  wishes  them  un- 
broken prosperity  for  a  hundred  centuries  more. 


YALE    UNIVERSITY 
NEW    HAVEN 

May  11,  1917 

Professor  William  Lyon  Phelps  desires  to  ex- 
press his  congratulations  to  Harper  8b  Brothers  on  their 
centennial,  and  to  say,  in  addition,  that  the  long 
record  of  this  publishing  house,  with  its  high  ideals, 
has  been  an  immense  credit  to  America. 

WM.    LYON    PHELPS 


May  11,  1917 

Congratulations  and  every  good  wish  to  Harper 

8b  Brothers  from 

C.    D.   GIBSON 


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211    BAY    STATE    ROAD,    BOSTON 

May  10,  1917 

Mr.  Robert  Grant  congratulates  Messrs.  Har- 
per &  Brothers  on  their  Centennial  Anniversary,  and, 
reciprocating  their  cordial  greetings,  wishes  them 
another  hundred  years  of  leadership. 


11  Pinckney  Street,  Boston 


Dear  Harper's  Magazine: 


I  thank  you  for  the  anniversary  announce- 
ment. Harper's  has  been  a  power  and  a  delight. 
(I  have  a  complete  set  from  the  beginning,  and  I  read 
it  with  never-failing  joy.)     Long  life  to  it! 

Always  most  cordially  yours, 

ALICE   BROWN 
May  13th 


Hearty  congratulations  to  Messrs.  Harper  & 
Brothers  and  best  wishes  for  another  "century  run"! 

ELEANOR   H.    PORTER 
Cambridge 

May  11th,  1917 


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EMERSON    HOUGH 

2042    CONT'L    &    COM'L    NATIONAL    BANK    BLDG 
CHICAGO 


May  12,  1917 
Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York. 

Gentlemen: 

Let  me,  as  an  unimportant  member  of  your 
family  of  authors,  but  one  very  proud  to  be  even  such 
a  member,  felicitate  you  very  heartily  on  your  one 
hundredth  birthday,  with  the  wish  that  you  may  have 
many  happy  returns  through  many  happy  and  pros- 
perous centuries.  A  name  such  as  yours  is  one 
which  ought  to  live  forever  in  the  history  of  letters. 

Do  you  know,  although  I  have  always  known 
Harper  &  Brothers  to  be  a  very  old  house,  it  never 
occurred  to  me  that  you  really  dated  back  to  1817. 
Fine !  Is  that  not  the  longest  life  of  all  the  American 
publishing  houses? 

With  every  good  wish,  and  thanking  you  for 
your  card  of  remembrance,  I  am, 

Yours  faithfully, 

EMERSON    HOUGH 


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WOMAN'S    HOME    COMPANION 

381    FOURTH    AVENUE 

NEW    YORK 

EDITORIAL   ROOMS 

June  Thirteenth, 
Nineteen  Hundred  and  Seventeen 

Gentlemen: 

No,  I  haven't  congratulated  Harper 
&  Brothers  on  their  hundredth  birthday — you  have 
me  there — though  their  birthday  card  has  been  kept 
in  a  conspicuous  place  at  the  end  of  my  desk  just  to 
remind  me  to  do  so.  I'm  sorry  I  didn't  practice  what 
I  preach,  but  here  are  congratulations,  heartfelt  be- 
cause I'm  almost  as  old  myself. 

And  let  me  congratulate  the  magazine  on  its 
return  to  the  dear  old  cover.  I  was  brought  up  on  it. 
Why  don't  you  stick  to  it?  Have  a  little  courage  and 
get  out  of  this  mad  rush  among  American  magazines 
to  get  a  new  cover  every  month,  most  of  them  bad. 
.  .  .  I'm  getting  old;  this  sounds  just  like  the  hollow 
echo  of  age.  However,  I  do  love  that  old  cover,  and 
I  do  know  that  a  great  many  magazine  covers  are 
pretty  bad,  including  our  own,  which  I  work  valiantly 
to  get. 

When  my  house  burns  away  I'll  remember  your 
kind  words.  I  have  one  now,  too,  up  in  Westchester 
County,  and  a  war  garden  of  an  acre. 

With  additional  congratulations  for  the  House 
of  Harper — I'm  proud  to  be  one  of  the  shingles — or 
perhaps  I'm  only  a  knot  hole — I  remain, 

Sincerely  yours, 

HAYDEN    CARRUTH 


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DIOCESE    OF    BETHLEHEM 


BISHOP'S    HOUSE 
SOUTH    BETHLEHEM,    PA 


May  10,  '17 
Messrs  Harper  &  Brothers: 

Gentlemen: 

I  beg  to  acknowledge  the  cordial 
greetings  of  your  excellent  firm  just  received  as  you 
enter  upon  your  centennial  year.  May  I  take  this 
opportunity  to  thank  you  for  the  many  courtesies 
extended  to  me  in  the  past  and  to  wish  you  an  abun- 
dance of  prosperity  and  continued  usefulness  for  the 
years  to  come.  With  grateful  appreciation,  believe 
me,  gentlemen, 

Very  Faithfully  Yours, 

ETHELBERT   TALBOT 


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Closter,  N.  J.,  May  11th,  1917 

Messrs.  Harper  8b  Brothers 

Gentlemen: 

In  acknowledging  the  receipt  of 
your  announcement  of  the  Centennial  Year  of  the 
House  of  Harper,  I  wish  to  congratulate  you  upon  the 
three  generations  of  service  which,  under  the  honored 
name  of  that  great  house,  has  been  rendered  to  the 
American  public.  There  is  no  memory  of  my  early 
days  that  I  cherish  more  warmly  than  that  of  the 
intellectual  stimulus  which  I  received  from  the  ad- 
mirable volumes  of  "Harper's  Family  Library"  and 
"Harper's  District  School  Library,"  which  were 
worth  more  to  me  than  all  my  school  studies,  and 
whose  impression  was  so  deep  that  yet  to-day  the 
sight  of  one  of  those  old  books  is  to  me  like  catching 
a  view  of  a  lost  but  never  forgotten  landmark.  Re- 
calling my  boyish  veneration  for  the  name  of  Harper, 
it  is  no  small  source  of  pride  for  me  to-day  that  I  am 
able  to  read  it  on  the  title  page  of  some  of  my  own 
books.  Wishing  for  you  another  hundred  years  of 
prosperity  and  achievement,  I  am 

Sincerely  yours, 

GARRETT   P.   SERVISS 


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UNIVERSITY    OF    PENNSYLVANIA 

PHILADELPHIA 

THE    COLLEGE 


May  14th,  1917 

Messrs.  Harper  8b  Brothers, 

Franklin  Square,  New  York. 

My  dear  Sirs: 

Allow  me  to  add  my  word  of  sin- 
cere congratulation  to  the  firm  of  Harper  8b  Brothers 
now  entering  so  auspiciously  upon  its  Centennial. 

Very  truly  yours, 

FELIX  E.  SCHELLING 


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THE    DELINEATOR 

BUTTERICK    BUILDING 

NEW    YORK 


May  10,  1917 

Messrs.  Harper  8b  Bros. 

Franklin  Square,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Gentlemen: 

I  wish  to  congratulate  you  upon  this 
hundredth  anniversary  of  your  long  and  honorable 
career.  Though  I  never  have  had  the  pleasure  of 
appearing  in  your  publications,  I  never  the  less, 
in  common  with  all  other  Americans,  have  long 
loved  and  honored  your  fine  old  firm. 

My  father,  who  is  the  son  of  a  Methodist 
circuit  rider  of  Southern  Ohio,  tells  this  story:  When 
he  was  ten  years  old,  a  man  was  building  a  house  on 
a  hill  on  the  Ohio  River.  He  hired  my  father  to  work 
for  him  and  all  summer  long  father  with  the  old 
white  horse,  Dick,  hauled  sand  and  stone  from  the 
bottom  of  the  hill  to  the  top,  for  which  the  man  gave 
him  a  five-dollar  note.     It  was  a  rusty  red  color,  father 


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says,  on  the  Green  National  Bank  of  West  Virginia. 
My  grandfather,  as  was  then  the  custom,  cut  the 
note  in  two  and  sent  one-half  of  it  to  Harper  & 
Brothers,  as  a  subscription  to  Harper's  Weekly,  prom- 
ising that  the  other  half  would  follow  in  a  later  mail. 
My  father  somewhere  had  seen  a  copy  of  the  Weekly 
which  was  then  running,  he  says,  "The  Cloister  and 
the  Hearth."  He  was  frantic  to  finish  the  story. 
Weeks  went  by  and  the  Harper's  Weekly  did  not 
appear.  Grandfather  finally  wrote  to  New  York 
and  was  told  that  the  second  half  of  the  note  had 
never  appeared,  but  that  Harper  8b  Brothers  were 
sending  the  magazine  anyhow,  and  in  due  course  of 
time  the  back  numbers  of  "The  Cloister  and  the 
Hearth"  appeared.  He  says  that  every  one  in  the 
village  and  for  miles  around,  turn  about,  borrowed 
the  magazine  after  he  had  finished  with  it. 

It  is  anecdotes  such  as  these  that  endear  your 
firm  to  the  American  public. 

Very  sincerely, 

HONORE   WILLSIE 

Editor 


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Messrs.  Harper  8b  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,   New  York. 

Gentlemen: 

Returning  from  an  absence  I  find 
here  your  charming  Centennial  greeting,  for  which 
I  heartily  thank  you.  Do  you  mind  my  mentioning 
first  the  pleasure  that  it  is  to  be  on  your  list,  to 
have  one  of  these  pleasant  mementoes?  I  think 
well  of  myself  because  of  it.  But  let  me  say  that 
chiefly  the  delight  is  to  have  this  House — which  I 
have  always  known  as  I  know  a  person — emerge  now 
with  this  new  proof  of  personality,  and  speak  like  a 
friend. 

Since  I  remember  reading  at  all,  I  remember 
Harper's  Magazine — and  to  have  read  there  a  few 
times  something  that  I  had  written  myself  added,  for 
me,  may  I  modestly  say,  to  the  picture.  All  my  life 
in  one  way  and  another,  then,  this  publishing  house 
has  given  me  pleasure — and  I  count  it  deep  grace  to 
exchange  this  greeting. 

A  happy  birthday!  Another  century!  and 
more  .  .  . 

Faithfully  yours, 

ZONA   GALE 
Portage,  Wisconsin 

June  16,  1917 


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9    WEBSTER    PLACE 
EAST    ORANGE,    N.    J. 


Mrs.  Edith  Barnard  Delano  offers  her  most 
sincere  felicitations  to  Messrs.  Harper  85  Brothers 
on  the  occasion  of  their  entering  upon  their  Cen- 
tennial Year.  To  all  having  to  do  with  the  pro- 
fession of  authorship  the  high  standard  maintained 
by  the  House  of  Harper  and  its  magazine  is  a  goal 
and  an  inspiration,  and  its  cordiality  and  the  knowl- 
edge of  its  integrity  a  reward. 

May,  1917 


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JEWISH    DAILY    FORWARD 
FORWARD    BUILDING 

New  York,  June  14,  1917 

Harper  &  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York  City. 

Gentlemen : 

I  heartily  congratulate  the  firm  of 
Harper  &  Brothers  upon  the  completion  of  a  cen- 
tury of  phenomenal  service  in  the  field  of  letters. 

The  history  of  American  literature  is  inti- 
mately associated  with  the  history  of  Harper  & 
Brothers,  who  have  stood  sponsor  to  and  fostered  a 
great  many  of  the  foremost  talents  in  the  realm  of 
literary  art  not  only  at  home  but  also  in  England. 

Speaking  of  our  own  time,  I  find  my  three 
great  favorites  in  modern  American  literature, 
William  Dean  Howells,  Mark  Twain  and  Margaret 
Deland  in  the  Harpers'  catalogue.  This  in  itself 
would  be  enough  to  entitle  the  firm  to  immortality. 

With  warmest  regards  and  best  wishes, 

Yours  sincerely, 

ABRAHAM   CAHAN 


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ELLIS    PARKER    BUTLER 

242    STATE    STREET 

FLUSHING,    N.    Y. 


My  dear  House  of  Harper: 

I  don't  see  how  you  ever  got  to  be  100  years  old 
without  publishing  one  of  my  books,  but  miracles 
seem  to  be  happening  all  the  time. 

I  can  only  hope  that  you  will  continue  such 
a  clean,  honest  and  just  existence  in  the  future  that 
100  years  from  now  you  will  be  200  years  old,  if  not 
more. 

Of  course,  if  you  had  published  one  of  my 
books  you  would  be  208  years  old  by  now  (or  feel 
that  old,  anyway — or  be  dead) — but  you  can  go  right 
ahead  and  feel  the  satisfaction  that  comes  from 
knowing  that  the  good  die  young. 

Congratulations ! 

ELLIS   PARKER   BUTLER 


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OAK    LANE    P.     O. 
PHILADELPHIA 


May  14,  '17 


Mr.  Harrison  S.  Morris  offers  his  sincere  and 
overflowing  congratulations  to  the  House  of  Har- 
per 8b  Brothers  upon  attaining  the   mature  age   of 

One   Hundred   Years! 

and  he  hopes  that  the  usefulness  and  cultivation  of 
American  ideals  and  taste  which  the  Messrs.  Harper 
have  always  cherished  may  sustain  its  venerable  but 
still  young  life  to  the  consummation  of 

Another   Century. 


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May  11,  1917 


Here,  dear  Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers,  are 
the  sincere  felicitations  of  one  of  your  "Old  Guard." 
That  a  publishing  house  can  exist  for  a  round 
century  in  the  aura  of  honor  and  distinction  which 
has  always  enveloped  yours  is  to  the  immeasurable 
credit,  not  only  of  itself,  but  of  Literature  in  the  great 
sense  wherewith  you  have  fostered  it. 

I  count  it  a  distinguished  honor  to  be  one  of 
the  authors  you  have  helped  up  the  difficult  sides  of 
Parnassus. 

May  you  see  another  century — and  then  others 
and  others  still! 

Very  sincerely  yours, 

JOHN   LUTHER   LONG 


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Ogunquit,  Maine, 
May  18,  1917 


Mr.  John  Kendrick  Bangs  thanks  Messrs. 
Harper  85  Brothers  for  their  Centennial  Greeting,  and 
begs  in  return  not  only  to  congratulate  them  upon 
their  mellowed  years,  but  to  wish  them  a  thousand 
years  more  of  health,  prosperity  and  that  spiritual 
effectiveness  for  which  their  honored  name  has  ever 
stood. 


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Richmond,  Indiana,  June  20,  1917 

Harper  &  Brothers 

Dear  Sirs: 

Most  hearty  congratulations  upon 
this  achievement  of  a  centennial  year! 

When  one  has  reached  a  hundred,  reminiscence 
becomes  a  joyous  thing! 

As  the  first  numbers  of  Harper's  New  Monthly 
Magazine  were  issued — I  did  not  receive  them  per- 
sonally— a  bookish  family  carefully  set  them  where 
they  became  the  most  interesting  shelf  in  the  library. 

One  day — never  mind  the  date — I  climbed  on  a 
chair  and  took  out  a  bound  volume  and  discovered 
Mrs.  Boffin  just  as  she  discovered  an  orphan. 

What  could  be  more  charming  to  the  child  I 
then  was  than  that  orphan  and  Sloppy  and  the  Doll's 
Dressmaker? 

Don't  tell  me  it  was  a  back  number!  Nothing 
can  ever  be  a  back  number  which  opens  the  gates  to 
good  literature  as  that  magazine  did  to  me.  Nearly 
all  copies  since  then  and  many  of  the  still  older  ones 
have  given  me  my  best  mental  pleasure — but  when 
Vol.  29  falls  open  of  its  own  accord  and  my  hand 
caresses  page  874  there  is  the  reason  why  I  have 
been  all  my  reading  life  Harper's 

Truly  loving  friend, 

JOHNSTON   GROSVENOR 


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The  Brunswick, 

Boston,  Massachusetts, 


May  10th,  1917 
Messrs.  Harper  8b  Brothers 

Messieurs : 

The  centenary  of  the  distinguished 
Publishing  House  of  Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers  is  an 
event  of  national  interest  and  a  notable  landmark  in 
literary  history.  In  a  very  unusual  manner  your 
House  has  stood,  unfailingly,  for  the  best  moral  and 
intellectual  development  of  the  century  its  work 
covers,  and  your  important  publications  represent 
to  a  remarkable  degree  the  finest  inflorescence  of  the 
genius  and  the  ability  of  that  period.  The  books, 
comprising  almost  every  department  of  human  knowl- 
edge, and  the  Magazine  bearing  your  honored  name, 
have  been  an  incalculable  power  for  the  enlighten- 
ment, the  culture,  and  the  joy  of  life  in  our  own  and 
in  many  other  countries. 

Let  me  thank  you  for  the  privilege  of  being 
permitted  to  be  among  those  who  will  gladly  avail 
themselves  of  the  privilege  of  presenting  personal 
congratulations  and  personal  gratitude  for  your  in- 
fluence and  work,  with  confident  hope  that  your 
success  and  your  contribution  to  all  that  makes  for 
the  best  of  life  may  long  continue. 

Faithfully  yours, 

LILIAN   WHITING 


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WILBUR    D.    NESBIT 

104    SOUTH    MICHIGAN    AVENUE 
CHICAGO 


May  14th,  1917 
Harper  &  Brothers 

New  York  City. 

Gentlemen: 

Accept  my  sincerest  and  heartiest 
congratulations  on  the  fact  that  Harper  85  Brothers 
is  entering  upon  its  Centennial  Year. 

The  age  of  such  a  power  for  good  in  the  literary 
world  and  of  such  a  positive  force  in  the  actual  better- 
ment of  the  people  cannot  be  measured  in  years.  It 
is  as  eternal  as  the  universe  itself. 

Cordially  yours, 

WILBUR    D.    NESBIT 


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DEPARTMENT  OF  CORRECTION 

MUNICIPAL    BUILDING 

NEW    YORK 


Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers, 

Franklin  Square,  New  York  City. 

Dear  Sirs: 

Many  thanks  for  the  good  wishes 
contained  in  your  Centennial  Anniversary  announce- 
ment. I  sincerely  trust  the  next  century  of  the  exist- 
ence of  your  publishing  house  will  be  filled  with  as 
many  great  achievements  as  has  the  first,  and  that 
you  will  be  able  to  contribute  as  much  to  the  next 
century  as  you  have  to  the  past. 

Very  sincerely, 

BURDETTE   G.   LEWIS 

Commissioner 
May  tenth 
Nineteen  seventeen 


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A.    J.    DITTENHOEFER 
NEW    YORK 


May  14,  1917 

Harper  &  Brothers, 

Franklin  Square,  New  York  City. 

Gentlemen: 

It  gives  me  much  pleasure  to  con- 
gratulate you  on  your  centennial  anniversary.  The 
house  of  Harper  8b  Brothers  has  from  its  very  start 
stood  in  the  publishing  world  for  everything  that  is 
noble  and  fine  in  literature,  and  has  maintained 
without  a  blemish  during  these  one  hundred  years 
its  high  reputation. 

With  sincere  wishes  for  the  continuance  of  your 
successful  career,  I  am 

Yours  sincerely, 

A.    J.    DITTENHOEFER 


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785     MADISON    AVENUE 
NEW    YORK 


Annie  Nathan  Meyer  thanks  the  House  of 
Harper  for  the  very  cordial  greeting  extended  to  her  on 
the  happy  occasion  of  the  one  hundredth  anniversary 
of  the  founding  of  the  House,  and  hopes  that  unfail- 
ing prosperity  will  be  brought  by  future  years  and 
an  opportunity  even  richer  than  ever  in  the  service  of 
American  Letters. 

May  16,  1917 


ONE    HUNDRED    AND    T.W.O 
EAST    FIFTY-SECOND    STREET 


Marjorie  Benton  Cooke  wishes  to  express  her 
appreciation  of  the  Centennial  greeting  of  Messrs. 
Harper  8b  Brothers,  and  to  offer  her  most  cordial 
congratulations  to  the  House  of  Harper,  which  has 
been  associated  with  all  that  is  best  and  most  dis- 
tinguished in  American  letters  during  these  hundred 
years. 

May  Sixteenth 


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Messrs  Harper  &  Brothers 
New  York. 

Gentlemen: 

Please  let  me  congratulate  you 
upon  having  attained  your  Centennial,  and  give  you 
my  sincere  wishes  for  your  continued  honor  and 
prosperity.  I  look  upon  the  House  of  Harper  as  a 
very  old  friend,  for  you  published  my  first  book  and 
five  others,  and  although  I  have  strayed  away  from 
you  of  late  years  my  feeling  for  you  is  just  as  cordial 
as  it  ever  was,  and  I  am  glad  and  proud  to  be  num- 
bered among  your  authors. 

With  best  wishes  and  congratulations, 

Sincerely  yours, 

ELLEN   DOUGLAS   DELAND 


24  Court  Street, 

Dedham,  Mass. 

May  12,  1917. 


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RAYMOND    SPEARS 
LITTLE    FALLS,     N.     Y. 


May  11,  '17 
Messrs.  Harper  8b  Brothers 
New  York  City. 

Gentlemen: 

I  need  not  say  with  what  interest 
I  received  your  Centennial  greeting.  Perhaps  I  can 
do  no  better  than  tell  you  of  an  incident  that  I  heard 
of  during  my  gathering  of  material  for  writing. 

At  the  Caney  Fork  of  the  Cumberland  River, 
about  1880,  a  father  of  the  name  of  Myer  gave  his 
sons  money  for  the  purchase  of  books,  and  at  inter- 
vals these  youths  sent  to  Harper  8s  Brothers  for  "a 
package  of  books."  The  two  boys  read  in  one  of 
these  books  that  pearls  were  found  in  shells,  and  there 
were  many  mussel  shells  in  the  Cumberland  and  its 
tributaries.  One  day  a  man  found  a  "little  trick" 
in  one  of  these  shells,  and  the  boys  bought  it;  im- 
mediately, fishermen  and  loungers  began  to  search  for 
these  "tricks,"  and  the  boys  purchased  several 
ounces  of  them.  They  paid  fifty  cents,  up  to  $5.00 
for  the  pearl  pieces. 

Then  one  of  the  boys  rode  on  horseback  out 
to  Nashville  to  sell  their  treasure.  They  had  paid 
$105  for  the  finds,  and  the  young  salesman  thought 
he  must  be  victim  of  sharp  practice  when  only  $2.50 
was  offered  for  the  vial  full. 


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The  boys  were  persistent;  they  saw  their 
mistake,  but  began  the  study  of  pearls  from  that 
chance  hint  they  read  in  a  Harper  book.  They 
learned  the  essentials  of  a  pearl  of  price,  and  through 
their  work  developed  the  Cumberland  pearl  fisheries, 
which  were  the  first  of  commercial  importance  in 
American  fresh-water  mussel  fishing.  Fifteen  or 
eighteen  years  later  one  of  the  boys  had  made  such 
use  of  his  studies  that  he  was  a  dealer  in  American 
fresh-water  pearls  and  baroques,  and  he  is  to-day  per- 
haps the  longest  in  the  business  of  buying  these 
beautiful  gems  from  American  streams. 

The  incident  was  so  striking  that  it  instantly 
occurred  to  me  on  receiving  your  friendly  greetings. 


Sincerely  yours, 


RAYMOND   S.    SPEARS 


P.  S.     H M ,  New  York  City,  is  the 

pearl  buyer  to  whom  I  referred  in  the  letter  which 
this  sheet  accompanies. 


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ANCHORAGE,    KENTUCKY 


May  16th,  1917 
Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York. 

Dear  Sirs: 

I  have  pleasure  in  acknowledging 
your  cordial  greeting  to  me  as  an  American  author, 
and  in  offering  my  sincere  and  heartfelt  felicitations 
on  this  occasion  of  your  centenary. 

May  I  add  that  I  was  brought  up  on  the 
Harper  traditions?  That  Harper's  Monthly,  Weekly, 
Bazar,  and  Young  People — shall  I  ever  forget  the  joys 
afforded  through  "Mr.  Stubbs's  Brother"? — were  a 
recognized  and  habitual  part  of  the  family  life.  It 
is  rather  pleasant  to  recall  that  I  first  read  Dickens, 
Eliot,  etc.,  not  from  the  volumes  on  the  family 
shelves,  but  from  the  old  bound  Harper's  found  on  a 
dusty  and  forgotten  shelf.  That  I  knew  Hardy  first 
through  the  current  Monthly,  etc.,  etc. 

I  enter  into  these  personalities  through  a 
curiously  belated  realization  of  how  far  Harper  8b 
Brothers  have  been  significantly  a  part  of  the  mental 
life  of  America. 

With  appreciation  of  your  compliment  in  in- 
cluding me  in  your  day  of  celebration,  and  with 
hearty  good  wishes,  I  am, 

Faithfully  yours, 

GEORGE   MADDEN    MARTIN 


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Miss  Jeannette  Marks  acknowledges  with 
pleasure  the  cordial  greetings  of  Messrs.  Harper  8s 
Brothers  on  their  One  Hundredth  Anniversary.  May 
the  successful  and  generous  activities  of  the  House  of 
Harper  continue  for  many  hundreds  of  years  to  come ! 

May  30,  1917 


Philip  Curtiss  offers  to  Messrs.  Harper  8s 
Brothers  his  most  sincere  congratulations  on  their 
attainment  of  a  centennial  year  and  assures  them 
that  their  appreciation  of  pleasant  association  is 
most  heartily  reciprocated. 

Norfolk,  Connecticut 

May  eleventh,  nineteen  seventeen 


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HENRY    WALLACE    PHILLIPS 

158    EAST    88TH    STREET 

NEW    YORK    CITY 


Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York  City. 

Gentlemen: 

I  wish  to  thank  you  for  the  greetings 
so  kindly  sent  me  on  the  occasion  of  your  one  hun- 
dredth anniversary. 

May  you  have  at  least  a  hundred  years  more 
to  represent  all  that  is  honorable  in  business  and  all 
that  is  fine  in  literature. 

I  am  glad  to  have  been  a  part  of  this  long 
record  of  probity  and  ability,  even  though  my  part 
was  so  small. 

With  most  sincere  good  wishes, 


Very  sincerely, 


H.    W.    PHILLIPS 


May  20,  '17 


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Jamaica  Plains, 

May  13,  1917 


Miss  Caroline  Ticknor  wishes  to  thank  Messrs. 
Harper  8b  Brothers  for  their  kind  card  of  greeting, 
and  to  extend  to  them  her  most  sincere  congratula- 
tions on  their  completion  of  a  century  of  successful 
publishing. 

As  a  member  of  a  family  that  has  for  three 
generations  been  associated  with  the  publishing 
business,  she  can  truly  appreciate  the  meaning  of  such 
a  notable  record,  and  as  one  who  stands  upon  their 
list  of  authors,  she  is  glad  to  have  an  opportunity  to 
express  her  gratitude  for  all  past  courtesies. 


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THE    LANDMARKS    CLUB 


Los  Angeles,  Cal. 
May  14th,  1917 

Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers 
Franklin  Square 

New  York  City,  New  York. 

Gentlemen: 

I  acknowledge  with  most  grateful 
regard  the  receipt  of  your  message  at  the  beginning 
of  your  Centennial  Year;  and  while  my  work  as  an 
author  is  a  very  trivial  part,  my  feeling  as  an  author 
is  what  I  trust  and  believe  your  major  contributors 
feel  toward  you. 

It  has  been  a  privilege  to  have  even  minor 
dealings  with  a  house  of  your  character  in  scholarship, 
in  courtesy  and  in  business. 

And  I  sincerely  hope  that  the  House  of  Harper 
will  celebrate  another  Centennial — though  that  will 
hardly  be  the  privilege  of  us  who  celebrate  the  first 
one. 

With  high  regard  and  best  wishes, 

Sincerely  yours, 

CHAS.   F.   LUMMIS. 


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418  West  118th  Street,  N.  Y. 

11th  May,     1917 

Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers: 

Honored  and  dear  Sirs: 

It  is  with,  perhaps,  more  than  a 
general  average  of  pleasure  and  interest  that  I 
acknowledge  and  thank  you  for  the  beautiful  expres- 
sions of  good  feeling  you  send  me  on  the  centennial  of 
your  House. 

That  "House"  of  Harper  8b  Brothers  has 
been  a  tradition  in  my  family  on  both  sides,  for  it 
published  in  1837  my  great-grandfather  (on  the  distaff- 
side),  Matthew  Livingston  Davis's,  "Life  of  Burr," 
and  in  1843  "The  Motley  Book"  by  my  father's 
much  older  brother,  Cornelius  Mathews. 

By  and  by  a  little  girl  came  along  and  as  soon 
as  she  knew  how  to  handle  a  pen  it  began  to  write 
fiction.  Fiction  went  to  Harper's  Bazar  under  a  nom 
de  plume,  and  later  on  Mr.  Alden  accepted  the  first 
of  the  "Chinese  Stories"  that  have  traveled  around 
the  world. 

The  uniform  and  beneficent  courtesy,  the 
kindliness,  and  the  splendid  hospitality  of  the  House, 
as  witnessed  by  the  wonderful  and  impressive 
functions  in  honor  of  Mr.  Alden's  and  Mr.  Howells' 
birthdays,  are  marked  with  red  letters  and  capitals 
in  the  memory,  and  sealed  with  the  gratitude  of  one 
of  the  least  of  the  scribblers — 

FRANCES   AYMAR   MATHEWS 


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Washington,  D.  C. 
Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers 

Gentlemen: 

Although  my  name  is  a  new  and 
inconspicuous  one  on  the  list  of  those  who  are  for- 
tunate enough  to  call  you  their  publishers,  may  I 
extend  to  you  my  sincere  and  hearty  congratula- 
tions on  this  your  Centennial  Year. 

Very  cordially  yours, 

ABBIE   PHILLIPS   WALKER 
The  Dresden 

May  the  twelfth,  1917 


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5491   Hyde  Park  Blvd., 

Chicago,  111., 

May  15,  1917 

Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York. 

Gentlemen: 

In  acknowledging  receipt  of  your 
Centennial  announcement  I  beg  to  offer  you  hearty 
congratulations  and  the  best  of  wishes  for  the  future. 
In  these  days  of  changing  conditions  and  imperma- 
nent business  association  it  is  not  given  to  many  to 
reach  a  centennial,  much  less  to  reach  it  in  all  the 
freshness  and  vigor  of  youth.  That  your  house 
may  reach  a  second  centennial  in  some  period  of  the 
world's  age  more  advanced  in  all  that  leads  to  human 
uplifting  and  more  resolute  in  maintaining  justice  and 
fraternal  relations  than  the  present  is  the  cordial 
wish  of 

Sincerely  yours, 

GEO.   P.   UPTON 


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WILLIAM    T.    ELLIS 
SWARTHMORE,    PA. 


May  Twenty-two, 
Nineteen  Seventeen 

Messrs.  Harper  8b  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York  City. 

Gentlemen: 

As  one  of  the  undistinguished 
writers  who  have  always  held  in  high  esteem  the  house 
of  Harper  8s  Brothers  may  I  enter  my  congratulations 
upon  the  centennial  which  you  so  graciously  recog- 
nized by  the  Card  to  Authors? 

I  am  about  to  leave  for  the  Orient  and  the 
Caucasus,  and  then  for  Europe;  and  naturally  I  have 
hopes  of  some  good  work.  All  I  can  say  is  that  the 
firm  of  Harper  85  Brothers  will  have  the  first  chance 
at  any  book  I  have  to  offer. 

With  sincere  esteem,  and  the  best  of  wishes 
for  the  next  century,  I  am 

Respectfully  yours, 

W.   T.   ELLIS 


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FENWAY    STATION    P.   O.    BOX    32 
BOSTON 


May  11th,  1917 

Messrs.  Harper  8s  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York  City. 

Gentlemen: 

I  have  your  card  announcing  the 
centennial  year  of  your  firm,  and  offering  cordial 
greetings  to  the  authors  of  to-day. 

Your  announcement  points  to  a  great  achieve- 
ment, and  I  offer  you  my  sincerest  congratulations. 
Though  my  share  in  contributing  to  the  publications 
of  your  house  has  been  slight,  it  has  nevertheless 
been  valued,  and  I  am  indebted  to  you  for  much  good 
reading  and  many  helpful  hours. 

May  the  past  be  a  prophecy  of  your  future. 

Sincerely  yours, 

W.   D.   McCRACKAN 


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158    WEST    81ST    STREET 
NEW    YORK    CITY 


May  10th,  1917 

Harper  8b  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York. 

Mr.  Channing  Pollock  desires  to  thank 
Messrs.  Harper  85  Brothers  for  their  card  of  greeting, 
and  to  congratulate  them  upon  their  one  hundredth 
anniversary.  Mr.  Pollock  rejoices  in  the  co-operation 
and  friendly  relations  between  authors  and  the 
House  of  Harper,  and  feels  that  the  attitude  of  this 
house  affords  a  fine  example  of  the  possible  amity  and 
accord  that  may  exist  between  authors  and  their 
publishers. 


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CARNEGIE    MUSEUM 
PITTSBURGH,    PENNSYLVANIA,    U.    S.    A. 


May  11,  1917 

Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Gentlemen: 

I  desire  with  thanks  to  acknowledge 
the  cordial  greetings  which  upon  the  occasion  of  the 
Centennial  of  the  founding  of  your  firm  you  have  so 
kindly  extended  to  me,  as  well  as  to  many  other 
authors. 

When  I  was  a  boy  living  in  a  little  manse  in 
Ohio  one  of  the  joyously  anticipated  events  of  the 
month  was  the  arrival  of  "Harper's  Magazine"  and 
later  of  "Harper's  Weekly."  I  vividly  recall  that 
lying  on  a  rug  before  the  fire  I  read  Abbott's  "Life 
of  Napoleon."  Since  then  years  of  study  and  of 
travel  have  scarcely  served  to  transform  the  hero  of 
the  story  from  a  deity  into  a  mere  superman.  I  fondly 
recall  the  writings  and  illustrations  of  "Porte  Crayon," 
whom  long  afterwards  I  learned  to  know  personally. 
"Harper's  Drawer"  furnished  me  with  a  supply  of 
"chestnuts,"  which  I  still  find  useful  in  after-dinner 
speeches.  I  remember,  though  I  have  not  seen  it  for 
sixty  years,  an  illustration  in  the  "Weekly"  showing 
Sepoys  tied  to  the  mouths  of  cannons,  there  to  expiate 


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their  disloyalty  by  being  blown  to  death.  How  it  made 
my  flesh  creep!  Then  came  in  the  "Weekly"  the 
pictures,  which  I  can  still  see,  of  the  stirring  events 
which  preceded  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War,  and 
then  (for  the  family  had  removed  to  North  Carolina) 
I  recall  the  aching  void  which  I  felt  when  the 
"Monthly"  and  the  "Weekly"  ceased  to  come  any 
longer  to  the  home,  for  armies  and  fleets  stood  in  the 
way. 

My  early  education  was  in  part  derived  from 
"Harper's  Monthly"  and  from  "Harper's  Weekly"; 
and  I  desire  to  express,  in  return  for  your  kind  greet- 
ings, the  sense  of  gratitude  which  I,  as  well  as  no 
doubt  thousands  of  other  Americans,  owe  to  your 
firm,  which  in  the  day  of  comparatively  "small 
things"  made  good  literature  accessible  to  the  people. 

I  am  very  sincerely  yours, 

W.    J.    HOLLAND 
Director  Carnegie  Museum, 

Late  Chancellor  of  the  University  of  Pittsburgh. 


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THE    CARNEGIE    INSTITUTE 
PITTSBURGH,    PA. 


Mr.  Samuel  Harden  Church  begs  to  present  his 
compliments  to  Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers,  and  to 
congratulate  them  upon  the  achievement  of  a  century 
of  productive  and  progressive  work  in  the  department 
of  letters.  Mr.  Church  hopes  that  the  new  century 
which  is  just  opening  will  bring  additional  renown 
to  Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers  by  reason  of  their 
continued  development  of  the  very  best  literature. 


May  eleventh 

Nineteen  hundred  seventeen 


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THE    WORLD 


New  York,  May  12,  1917 


Mr.  Don  C.  Seitz  has  received  with  great  pleas- 
ure the  announcement  of  the  Centennial  year  of 
Messrs.  Harper  85  Brothers. 

He  knows  of  no  business  enterprise  in  the  his- 
tory of  the  United  States  which  has  contributed  so 
much  to  the  general  welfare  of  its  citizens,  to  the 
intellectual  and  moral  life  of  the  country,  and,  above 
all,  to  sound  literature  and  writing. 

He  personally  feels  the  greatest  indebtedness 
to  the  House  of  Harper.  In  his  early  youth  books 
were  scarce,  and  the  old  files  of  the  Magazine  and 
Weekly  were  to  him  the  best  form  of  entertainment 
and  instruction.  He  has  had  the  good  fortune  to  live 
to  see  with  his  own  eyes  many  of  the  things  described 
and  illustrated  in  these  publications,  and  to  know  the 
fullness  of  the  joy  thereof. 

May  the  House  have  another  century  as 
honorable,  as  noble  and  as  valuable  as  that  just 
passed. 


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THE    BEECHES 
PKWEE    VALLEY,    KY. 


May  23,   1917 

Harper  &  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York. 

Dear  Sirs: 

It  is  with  great  pleasure  I  acknowl- 
edge your  anniversary  greeting.  For  half  a  century  I 
have  almost  claimed  kinship  with  the  House  of  Har- 
per, so  intimate  has  been  my  intercourse  with  your  out- 
put and  so  deep  my  enjoyment  of  your  contributions 
to  our  library  table  and  shelves.  Really  it  was 
your  rose -garlanded  infants  on  the  cover  of  the 
Monthly  Magazine  which  first  led  me  into  the  realm 
of  letters.  They  stood  for  so  much  in  my  childhood 
that  now  they  seem  symbolical  of  what  a  grateful 
public  should  be  to  you — showering  congratulations 
and  hearty  assurances  of  appreciation,  pleasant 
reminiscences  of  all  you  have  been  to  us  in  the  past, 
hopeful  prophecies  of  all  you  will  continue  to  be  in  the 
future. 

It  is  with  deep  personal  appreciation  of  the 
House  of  Harper  and  real  affection  for  an  institution 
that  stands  for  so  much  among  us  that  I  write  my 
"Godspeed"  and  wishes  for  many  happy  returns  of  the 
day. 

Sincerely, 

ANNIE   FELLOWS   JOHNSTON 


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MILWAUKEE    DOWNER    COLLEGE 
MILWAUKEE,    WISCONSIN 


May  twenty-five,  1917 


President  Sabin  and  Milwaukee  Downer  Col- 
lege congratulate  Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers  upon 
its  one  hundred  years  of  service,  which  has  consistently- 
advanced  the  ideals  and  character  of  the  people  of  our 
country,  and  to  offer  good  wishes  for  the  continuance 
of  the  power  and  will  further  to  carry  on  its  splendid 
work. 


67 


New  York,  May  9,  1917 

Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers 
Franklin  Square. 

Gentlemen: 

I  have  received  your  centennial  card 
expressing  friendly  regards  and  best  wishes  for  the 
authors  of  to-day.  I  want  to  say  in  reply  that  it 
has  been  given  to  few  houses,  as  it  has  been  to  that 
of  Harper,  to  complete  a  century  of  unbroken  honor, 
and  I  trust  that  it  will  have  a  second  century  com- 
pleted in  the  same  manner. 

Yours  sincerely, 

JOSEPH   A.   ALTSHELER 


New  York,  May  17,  1917 

Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York  City. 

Gentlemen: 

Your  card  at  hand  announcing  your 
centennial  year. 

I  thank  you  for  remembering  me,  and  certainly 
hope  that  the  coming  hundred  years  of  your  publish- 
ing concern  will  be  a  large  success. 

Yours  truly, 

EDWARD   STRATEMEYER 


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PART    III 

Letters   from  Publishers 


G.    P.    PUTNAM'S    SONS 

2    WEST    45TH    STREET 

NEW    YORK 

November  23,  1917 
Messrs.  Harper  8b  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  City. 

Dear  Sirs: 

I  am  interested  in  recalling,  through 
your  friendly  word  of  greeting,  that  your  historic 
publishing  House  has  now  completed  the  first  cen- 
tenary of  its  existence.  This  constitutes  for  our 
young  Republic  a  real  antiquity.  The  service  of  the 
House  to  literature  and  to  men  of  letters  on  the  one 
hand  and  to  American  students  and  readers  on  the 
other  has  continued  over  a  period  covering  two-thirds 
of  the  life  of  the  Republic.  Philosophers  have  main- 
tained that  the  real  thing,  the  thing  that  persists,  is 
not  the  material  but  the  ideal.  Generations  of  men 
pass  away,  but  ideas  and  ideals  are  handed  down  from 
generation  to  generation.  It  is  the  makers  of  books, 
publishers,  who  have  since  the  invention  of  printing 
had  in  their  hands  the  responsibility  for  handing  down 
from  generation  to  generation  in  concrete  form  the 
thoughts  of  writers,  greater  or  smaller.  The  pub- 
lishers may  claim  with  justice  that  in  preserving  and 
distributing  thought  they  have  served  as  a  factor  in 
the  maintenance  and  in  the  development  of  civili- 
zation. 

The  House  of  Harper  is  in  point  of  age  the 
veteran  among  American  publishers,  and  it  has  during 
its  century  of  life  held  its  place  in  the  first  group  of 
the  publishing  concerns  working  for  the  higher  intel- 
lectual interests  of  the  country. 


71 


The  publishers  have  emphasized  the  importance 
for  the  development  of  international  relations  of  the 
widest  possible  distribution  of  literature  throughout 
the  world.  It  is  the  belief  to-day  of  many  of  us  that 
there  should  be  in  the  nearest  possible  future  a  close 
alliance  of  the  English-speaking  peoples,  peoples  who 
possess  the  same  ideas  of  government,  who  have 
held  to  the  same  ideals  for  the  service  of  humanity, 
who  have  so  much  in  common  in  law,  in  customs,  in 
sympathy  and  in  literature. 

The  work  of  giving  to  each  people  trustworthy 
information  regarding  the  other,  of  making  known 
across  the  Atlantic  the  personality  of  Englishmen 
on  the  one  side  and  of  Americans  on  the  other,  is 
enormously  furthered  by  the  exchange  of  authors. 
It  was  the  idea  of  my  father,  the  late  George  P. 
Putnam,  who  was,  I  think,  the  first  American  pub- 
lisher to  invade  England,  that  the  publishers  on  both 
sides  could  be  of  very  great  service  in  the  work  of 
bringing  the  two  peoples  together. 

The  House  of  Harper,  in  the  management  for 
American  readers  of  the  works  of  English  authors 
and  in  its  service  to  American  authors  and  to  English 
readers  in  placing  American  books  on  the  other  side  of 
the  Atlantic,  has  done  its  part  in  this  all  important 
work. 

With  the  hope  that  its  prosperity  and  activities 
may  be  continued  and  developed  through  the  twen- 
tieth century,  I  am 

Yours  very  truly, 

GEO.    HAVEN    PUTNAM 


72 


HOUGHTON    MIFFLIN    COMPANY 
4    PARK    STREET,    BOSTON 

May  24,  '17 

Messrs.  Harper  8b  Brothers 

Gentlemen : 

May  I  in  behalf  of  our  House, 
which  does  not  find  its  beginnings  so  far  back  as 
your  own,  but  still  has  a  lively  sense  of  increasing 
age,  extend  my  heartiest  greetings  at  the  opening 
of  the  Centennial  Year  of  the  House  of  Harper. 
With  all  good  wishes,  I  am, 

Sincerely  yours, 

HOUGHTON    MIFFLIN    CO. 

GEORGE    H.    MIFFLIN 

President 


73 


CHARLES    SCRIBNER'S    SONS 

PUBLISHERS 

FIFTH    AVENUE    AT    48TH    STREET 

NEW    YORK 


Messrs.  Charles  Scribner's  Sons  are  very  glad 
to  find  in  Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers'  announcement 
to  authors  of  their  Centennial  Anniversary  the  oppor- 
tunity to  express  their  sincere  congratulations  and 
good  wishes.  No  one  can  better  appreciate  than  their 
fellow-publishers  the  importance  of  the  record  and 
accomplishment  which  their  hundredth  birthday 
celebrates. 

December  4,  1917 


74 


E.    P.    DUTTON    &    COMPANY 
68  1    FIFTH    AVENUJE 

New  York,  May  3,  1917 

Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York  City. 

Gentlemen: 

We  thank  you  for  the  good-will  and 
graciousness  expressed  in  your  kindly  greetings,  as 
conveyed  to  us  on  this  Centennial  Anniversary  of 
the  House  of  Harper. 

We  extend  to  you  our  cordial  good  wishes,  and 
the  earnest  hope  that  the  house  of  Harper  8b  Brothers 
may  be  a  beacon  light  to  the  American  people  during 
the  coming  hundred  years. 

With  all  good  wishes,  and  our  appreciation  of 
many  courtesies  extended  to  us  by  Harper  8b  Brothers, 
we  are, 

Faithfully  yours, 

E.   P.    DUTTON   8c   CO. 

JOHN    MACRAE 

Vice-President 


75 


THE    CENTURY    CO. 

353    FOURTH    AVENUE 

NEW    YORK 


April  twenty-seven,  1917 

Messrs.  Harper  8b  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York  City. 

Gentlemen: 

Pray  accept  our  sincere  felicitations 
on  the  opening  of  the  Centennial  Year  of  the  House 
of  Harper  and  our  best  wishes  for  a  continuation  and 
increase  of  the  success  and  prosperity  which  have  so 
deservedly  come  to  you. 

Very  cordially, 

W.   MORGAN   SHUSTER 

President 


76 


GINN    8b    COMPANY 

THE    ATHENAEUM    PRESS 

29    BEACON    STREET 

BOSTON 


Messrs.  Ginn  8b  Company  acknowledge  with 
pleasure  the  greetings  and  regards  extended  by 
Messrs.  Harper  8b  Brothers  at  the  opening  of  the  Cen- 
tennial Year  of  the  House  of  Harper,  and  take  this 
opportunity  to  express  their  high  appreciation  of  the 
distinguished  service  rendered  by  this  house  in 
establishing  and  maintaining  those  high  standards 
that  should  be  the  chief  satisfaction  of  all  worthy 
publishers. 

Boston,  Massachusetts,  May  the  ninth 


77 


J.    B.    LIPPINCOTT    COMPANY 

PUBLISHERS 
PHILADELPHIA 


April  28,  1917 

Messrs.  Harper  8b  Brothers 
New  York  City. 

Gentlemen: 

Allow  us  to  present  our  congratula- 
tions to  you  upon  the  opening  of  your  Centennial 
Year,  and  we  extend  our  best  wishes  for  your  con- 
tinued prosperity. 

Respectfully, 

J.    B.    LIPPINCOTT    COMPANY 

J.    BERTRAM    LIPPINCOTT 

President 


78 


FREDERICK    A.     STOKES    COMPANY 

PUBLISHERS 

443-449    FOURTH    AVENUE,    NEW    YORK 


April  27,  1917 

Dear  Messrs.  Harper: 

Permit  me  to  offer  my  hearty  con- 
gratulations on  the  Centennial  of  your  House,  with 
my  best  wishes  for  great  prosperity  for  you  in  the 
future. 

Yours  sincerely 

FREDERICK   A.    STOKES 


Messrs.  Harper  8b  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York  City. 


79 


MACMILLAN    85    CO.    LTD 
ST.    MARTIN'S    STREET. 
LONDON,    W.    C.    2 


Messrs.  Harper  8b  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York,  U.  S.  A. 

Dear  Sirs: 

We  have  received  your  card  of 
greeting  conveying  the  announcement  of  the  opening 
of  the  Centennial  Year  of  the  House  of  Harper,  and 
we  have  great  pleasure  in  reciprocating  your  greet- 
ings, and  offering  to  you  our  congratulations  and 
good  wishes  for  the  second  century  of  your  career. 
We  are, 

Yours  faithfully, 

MACMILLAN   &   CO.   LTD. 


80 


LONGMANS,     GREEN    &    CO 
39   PATERNOSTER   ROW 
LONDON,    E.    C.    4 


May   14,  1917 

Gentlemen: 

We  have  received  your  card  an- 
nouncing that  Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers  are  this  year 
entering  upon  their  second  century  of  business  life. 
We  should  like  to  be  allowed  to  send  you  our  best 
congratulations  on  this  event,  and  to  express  our 
hope  that  the  coming  years  may  be  full  of  success  and 
prosperity  to  the  House  of  Harper  8b  Brothers. 
We  remain,  gentlemen, 

Yours  very  truly, 

LONGMANS,    GREEN   85    CO. 


Messrs.  Harper  85  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York,  U.  S.  A. 


81 


HODDER    8b    STOUGHTON 

ST.    PAUL'S    HOUSE 

WARWICK    SQUARE 


London,  E.  C.  4,  14th  May,  '17 


Messrs.  Harper  8b  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York. 

Dear  Sirs: 

We  are  gratified  by  the  receipt  of 
your  fraternal  greetings,  which  we  most  heartily 
reciprocate.  The  House  of  Harper  is  famous,  not 
only  on  account  of  its  Centennial  age,  but  because  it 
has  always  stood — and  long  may  it  continue  to  stand 
— for  the  best  publishing  ideals  and  the  high  aims 
of  literature.     We  congratulate  you  and  greet  you. 

Yours  sincerely, 

HODDER    &    STOUGHTON 


82 


CHATTO   AND    WINDUS 

111    ST.    MARTIN'S    LANE 
LONDON 
W.    C.    2. 


May  Sixteenth 
Nineteen  Seventeen 


Dear  Sirs: 

We  beg  to  acknowledge  with  thanks 
the  receipt  of  your  card  conveying  your  greetings  at 
the  opening  of  the  Centennial  Year  of  the  House  of 
Harper;  and  we  heartily  congratulate  you  upon 
maintaining  your  traditions  throughout  this  long 
period  with  such  a  degree  of,  distinction. 

The  kind  and  good  wishes  you  express  for  our 
continued    prosperity    are    very    highly    appreciated 

by 

Yours  very  faithfully, 

CHATTO  AND  WINDUS 


Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York,  U.  S.  A. 


83 


.    M.    DENT    8b    SONS,    LTD. 

ALDINE   HOUSE 
COVENT    GARDEN,    LONDON,    W.    C.     2. 


14th  May,  1917 

Messrs.  Harper  85  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York  City,  U.  S.  A. 

Dear  Sirs: 

I  have  to  congratulate  you  most 
heartily  upon  entering  your  Centennial  Year.  I  only 
hope  that  for  many  generations  your  name  will  still 
stand  for  all  that  is  good  in  the  publishing  of  books. 
My  most  sincere  good  wishes  and  hearty  con- 
gratulations. 

Sincerely  yours, 

J.    M.    DENT 


84 


SAMPSON    LOW,    MARSTON    8c    CO.,    LTD 

OVERY    HOUSE 

100    SOUTHWARK    STREET 

LONDON,    S.E. 


May  15th,  1917 

Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York,  U.  S.  A. 

Dear  Sirs: 

1817—1917 
The  Directors  of  this  old  established 
publishing  house,  established  in  1787  by  Sampson 
Low  the  First,  Poland  Street,  Oxford  Street,  tender 
their  hearty  congratulations  and  greetings  to  the 
celebrated  house  of  Harper  upon  entering  their  cen- 
tennial year,  and  trust  that  its  star  of  prosperity  may 
never  be  dimmed.  May  it  also  be  a  happy  omen 
that  the  opening  year  of  their  centenary  is  distin- 
guished by  the  entry  of  the  great  country  which 
they  represent  into  the  great  universal  war  on  the 
side  of  truth,  righteousness,  justice  and  freedom. 

Faithfully  yours, 

SAMPSON    LOW,    MARSTON    8b    CO.,    LTD. 
W.    TYRRELL 
FRED.    J.    RYMER 

Managing  Directors 


85 


AMERICAN    LIBRARY    ASSOCIATION 

EXECUTIVE    OFFICES    OF    THE    ASSOCIATION 

78    EAST    WASHINGTON    STREET 

CHICAGO 


May  1,  1917 

Harper  &  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York  City. 

Gentlemen: 

On  behalf  of  the  American  Library- 
Association  I  have  great  pleasure  in  extending  hearty 
congratulations  and  best  wishes  to  your  house  on  the 
occasion  of  your  hundredth  anniversary,  with  the 
sincere  hope  that  your  success  in  the  coming  years 
may  fully  equal  and  even  exceed  that  of  the  past. 


Sincerely  yours, 


GEO.    B.    UTLEY 

Secretary 


86 


1140  Broadway 
New  York 

Grosset  &  Dunlap  extend  their  felicitations  and 
congratulations  to  the  House  of  Harper  upon  its 
achievement  of  an  honored  and  honorable  Centenary, 
and  it  is  their  sincere  hope  that  the  Torch  may 
continue  to  burn  with  undimmed  and  undiminished 
flame  for  many  years  to  come,  and  that  the  Out- 
stretched Hand  of  the  Future  may  ever  be  as  clean  and 
worthy  as  those  of  the  Present  and  Past. 

New  York  City- 
May  twenty-fifth 

Nineteen  hundred  and  seventeen 


GEORGE    W.    JACOBS 

1628    CHESTNUT      STREET 

PHILADELPHIA 


Messrs.  George  W.  Jacobs  8b  Company  wish 
to  extend  their  congratulations  to  Messrs.  Harper  85 
Brothers  upon  the  Centennial  Year  of  the  House  of 
Harper  and  cordially  reciprocate  their  good  wishes 
for  continued  prosperity. 


87 


YALE    UNIVERSITY    PRESS 
NEW    HAVEN,    CONNECTICUT 


May  2nd,  1917 

Messrs.  Harper  8b  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York  City. 

Dear  Sirs: 

I  have  the  honor  of  acknowledging  on  behalf  of 
the  Yale  University  Press  the  receipt  of  the  announce- 
ment of  the  Centennial  Anniversary  of  the  founding 
of  your  firm  and  to  extend  to  you,  on  behalf  of  our 
organization  and  the  University  whose  name  it  bears, 
best  wishes  for  the  continued  success  of  the  House 
of  Harper.  At  the  same  time  I  would  express  our 
warm  appreciation  of  your  good  wishes  for  our  Press 
which  has  yet  to  celebrate  its  tenth  anniversary. 

With  high  regard,  believe  me, 

Faithfully  yours, 

GEORGE  PARMLEY  DAY 

President 


COLLIER'S 

THE    NATIONAL    WEEKLY 

P.    F.    COLLIER    fit    SON,    INCORPORATED 

WEST    THIRTEENTH    STREET,    NEW    YORK 


May  2nd,  1917 

Harper  &  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York  City. 

Gentlemen: 

Please  accept  our  felicitations  on 
this  occasion  of  your  hundredth  anniversary.  For  a 
business  institution  to  have  attained  this  ripe  age  is  no 
small  achievement  in  itself,  but  to  have  reached  it  by 
slow  degrees  and  steady  progress  as  you  have  done 
testifies  more  eloquently  to  your  solidity  than  can  be 
expressed  in  words. 

The  foundation  of  your  building  must  have 
gone  to  rock  in  the  beginning  and  we  sincerely  hope 
it  will  be  all  enduring  and  able  to  withstand  future 
shock  to  which  publishers  now  seem  liable. 

Be  assured  you  have  our  sincere  congratula- 
tions and  best  wishes. 

Yours  very  truly, 

J.    G.  JARRETT 


89 


SCIENTIFIC    AMERICAN 

MUNN    8b    CO.,     INCORPORATED 

WOOLWORTH    BUILDING 

NEW   YORK 


April  27,  1917 

Messrs.  Harper  8b  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York  City. 

Gentlemen: 

Allow  me  to  congratulate  you 
upon  arriving  at  the  period  of  centenarians.  What 
a  splendid  record  your  house  has  had.  Certainly  it 
is  a  wonderful  record  for  a  business  in  this  country 
to  have  been  continued  for  so  long  a  time. 

We  have  passed  the  limit  of  our  second  ma- 
jority of  threescore  years  and  ten,  but  we  are,  after 
all,  only  young  people  as  compared  with  your  good 
selves. 

Yours  very  sincerely, 

CHARLES   A.    MUNN 


90 


THE    NEW 
REPUBLIC 

421    WEST    21ST    STREET 
NEW    YORK    CITY 


May  12,   1917 

Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York  City. 

Dear  Sirs: 

I  wish  to  offer  you  my  warmest  con- 
gratulations and  best  greetings  on  the  anniversary 
which  you  are  now  celebrating.  It  must  be  a  high 
privilege  to  be  associated  with  a  house  that  has  played 
so  big  a  role  in  American  thought  and  literature.  I 
can  best  express  my  feeling  by  saying  that  as  a  member 
of  one  of  the  youngest  enterprises  in  the  country  I 
wish  you  a  longer  future  than  your  past. 

Very  sincerely  yours, 

WALTER   LIPPMANN 


91 


SIR    ISAAC    PITMAN    8b    SONS,    LTD 
PUBLISHERS 
1,    AMEN    CORNER,    LONDON,    E.C.    4 


14th  May,  1917 

Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York. 

Gentlemen: 

Please  permit  me  to  thank  you  very 
sincerely  for  your  message  and  to  offer  you,  on  my 
own  behalf  and  on  behalf  of  my  Directors,  our  most 
sincere  good  wishes  on  the  attainment  of  the  Cen- 
tennial Year  of  your  House,  and  to  express  the  hope 
that  the  best  of  good  fortune  and  the  utmost  prosperity 
may  be  yours  in  the  future. 


Very  sincerely  yours, 


J.    HYNES 

Manager 


92 


LIBRAIRIE    HACHETTE    8b    CIE 
79,     BOULEVARD    SAINT-GERMAIN,     79 

Paris,  le  12  Mai,  1917 

Messieurs  Harper  &  Brothers 
Editeurs 

Franklin  Square 

New  York  (Etats  Unis) 

Messieurs : 

Nous  avons  regu  votre  carte,  nous 

annoncant   la   celebration   du   Centenaire    de   Votre 

Maison,  et  nous  nous  empressons  de  vous  adresser, 

en   cette   heureuse   circonstance,    nos   tres    cordiales 

felicitations,  avec  tous  nos  meilleurs  voeux  pour  le 

renouvellement  d'une  longue  prosperite. 

Veuillez  agreer,  Messieurs,  l'assurance  de  nos 

meilleurs  sentiments. 

WM.    HELM 


93 


LIBRAIRIE    LAROUSSE 

MOREAU,    AUGE,    GILLON   ET    CIE,    EDITEURS-IMPRIMEURS 

13-17,    RUE    MONTP  ARN  ASSE,    PARIS     (6e). 

16  Mai,  1917 

Messieurs: 

Nous  avons  l'honneur  de  vous  accuser 
reception  de  votre  carte  nous  faisant  part  de  la 
centieme  annee  d'existence  de  votre  honorable  Maison 
et  nous  adressant,  a  cette  occasion,  vos  bons  souhaits 
de  prosperite. 

Nous  vous  en  remercions  tr~s  vivement  et  a 
notre  tour  adressons  nos  felicitations  at  nos  meilleurs 
voeux  a  votre  Maison  connue  et  estimee  a  l'egal  des 
meilleures  sur  notre  continent. 

Nous  sommes  particulierement  sensibles  a 
votre  aimable  souvenir  au  moment  ou  la  Communaute 
des  aspirations  nationales  et  une  prochaine  con- 
fraternite  d'armes  sur  les  champs  de  batailles  resser- 
rent  les  liens  qui  unissent  la  France  a  la  grande 
Republique  soeur  d'Amerique. 

Veuillez  agreer,  Messieurs,  l'expression  de 
nos  sentiments  les  plus  cordiaux. 

MOREAU,  AUGE',  GILLON  ET  CIE. 


Messieurs  Harper  &  Brothers, 
Editeurs, 

New  York. 


94 


VILHELM    TRYDE 
BOG-    OG    KUNSTHANDEL 


Kjobenhavn  K,  den  18  June,  1917 


Messrs.  Harper  8b  Brothers 
Publishers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York. 

Gentlemen: 

Mr.  Vilhelm  Tryde  begs  to  thank 
Messrs.  Harper  8b  Brothers  for  their  kind  greetings  on 
the  occasion  of  the  Centennial  Jubilee  and  to  express  to 
the  firm  his  most  sincere  wishes  for  its  prosperity  in 
the  coming  100  years. 

Vivant,  crescant,  floreant  Harper  8b  Brothers! 

VILHELM   TRYDE 


95 


IMPRIMERIE    ET    LIBRAIRIE 

BERGER-LEVRAULT 

Fondee  a  Strasbourg  en  1676 


Paris,  le  11  Mai,  1917 

Messieurs  Harpers  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  a  New-York. 

Messieurs,  et  Chers  Confreres. 

Nous  vous  remercions  de  votre 
communication  et  notre  Maison,  fondee  a  Strasbourg 
en  1676  et  qui  compte  y  rentrer  prochainement  a  la 
suite  de  nos  Armees  victor ieuses,  est  heureuse  de  vous 
offrir,  a  l'occasion  de  votre  centenaire,  tous  ses  voeux 
de  prosperite. 

Veuillez  agreer,  Messieurs  et  Cher  Confreres, 
l'expression  de  nos  sentiments  distingues. 

T.   P.   FERRIER 


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ULRICO    HOEPLI 

MIL  ANO 


Ulrico  Hoepli,  publisher  in  Milan,  thanks 
Messrs.  Harper  85  Brothers  for  the  kind  announcement 
of  the  Centennial  year  of  their  House,  and  sends  them 
his  best  congratulations  and  wishes  for  their  continued 
prosperity. 

Milan,  May  25th,  1917 


Barcelona,  30  de  Mayo,  1917 

Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York  City,  U.  S.  A. 
Dear  Sirs: 

I  duly  received  your  card  with 
greetings  for  the  opening  of  the  Centennial  Year  of  the 
House  of  Harper,  for  which  attention  I  thank  you  very 
much,  wishing  you  an  endless  era  of  prosperity  in  your 
business  as  heretofore. 

Yours  very  truly, 

P.   SALVAT 
Pr.  AUDRAY  SALVAT 


97 


LIBRERIA    DEL    COLEGIO" 
CASA    ESTABLECIDA    EN    1830 

Buenos  Aires,  28  de  Mayo,  de  1917 


Senores  Harper  &  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York,  U.  S.  A. 

Muy  senores  nuestros: 

Oportunamente  hemos  sido  favore- 
cidos  por  su  atenta  tarjeta  saludandonos  con  motivo 
del  primer  centenario  de  esa  Casa. 

Agradecemos  mucho  y  muy  sinceramente  esta 
cortesia  a  la  par  que  les  felicitamos  por  el  aconteci- 
miento  que  la  motiva,  retribuyendoles  sus  congratu- 
laciones  y  celebrando  se  haya  presentado  esta  ocasion 
que  nos  permite  el  placer  de  ofrecernos  a  sus  ordenes. 

atentos  y  SS.  SS. 

CABAUT   Y    CIA. 


98 


ROBERT    M.    McBRIDE    85    COMPANY 

PUBLISHERS 

31     UNION    SQUARE    NORTH 

NEW    YORK 


April  28,  1917 

Harper  &  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York. 

Gentlemen: 

It  is  a  great  pleasure  to  receive  your 
greeting  on  the  occasion  of  your  Centenary.  A  hun- 
dred years  of  continuous  service  and  the  maintenance 
of  a  prestige  that  has  attended  the  house  of  Harper 
from  the  beginning  is  no  mean  achievement.  To  have 
been  the  publishers  for  so  many  distinguished  authors 
and  to  have  had  so  conspicuous  a  place  in  the  history 
of  American  letters  is  a  record  of  which  you  may  be 
justly  proud. 

And  so  we  extend  to  you  our  heartiest  con- 
gratulations. May  the  succeeding  years  see  a  con- 
tinuance of  your  ideals  and  may  you  have  prosperity 
in  abundant  measure. 

Faithfully  yours, 

ROBERT   M.    McBRIDE   &   COMPANY 

ROBERT    M.   McBRIDE 

President 


99 


B.    W.    HUEBSCH 

PUBLISHER 

225    FIFTH    AVENUE 

NEW    YORK 


Mr.  Huebsch  offers  congratulations  to  the  pub- 
lishing trade  as  well  as  to  Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers 
upon  their  contribution  to  the  American  culture  of 
the  last  one  hundred  years.  He  has  been  stimulated 
and  instructed  by  the  story  of  the  founders  of  the 
House,  as  told  in  the  volume  containing  its  history, 
and  he  employs  this  occasion  to  express  the  hope  that 
the  ideals  of  the  early  Harpers  may  be  perpetuated  by 
the  present  management. 


Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York. 


100 


PAUL    ELDER    BOOKROOMS 

TWO    HUNDRED    AND    THIRTY-NINE   GRANT   AVENUE 

SAN    FRANCISCO 


May  Second,  Nineteen  Seventeen 


Messrs.  Harper  8b  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York  City. 

Gentlemen: 

Please    accept    our    heartiest   con- 
gratulations on  your  Centennial  Anniversary. 

With  sincere  wishes  for  your  continued  pros- 
perity and  growth,  we  remain 

Very  truly  yours, 

PAUL   ELDER   8b   COMPANY 

By   PAUL   ELDER 

President 


101 


EDWARD    J.    CLODE 

PUBLISHER    AND    IMPORTER 

156     FIFTH    AVENUE 

NEW    YORK 


April  Twenty-seventh,  1917 


Messrs.  Harper  85  Brothers 
Franklin  Square 

New  York  City,  New  York. 

Gentlemen: 

I  acknowledge  and  thank  you  for  your 
announcement  of  the  opening  of  the  Centennial 
Year  of  the  House  of  Harper.  Your  good  wishes  are 
highly  appreciated. 

I  sincerely  hope  that  the  House  of  Harper  will 
continue  to  shed  its  light  prosperously  upon  the 
Publishing  World  for  many  a  long  year  to  come. 


Sincerely  yours, 


E.    J.    CLODE 


102 


THE  PAGE  COMPANY 

PUBLISHERS 

53  BEACON  STREET 

BOSTON 


The  Page  Company  is  in  receipt  of  the  an- 
nouncement that  the  House  of  Harper  has  entered 
into  the  one  hundredth  year  since  its  foundation,  and 
desires  to  convey  its  heartiest  felicitations  to  Messrs. 
Harper  &  Brothers.  The  Page  Company  would  be 
very  much  gratified  if,  at  the  end  of  its  one  hundredth 
year — it  has  just  passed  its  twenty-fifth  anniversary — 
it  could  have  behind  it  the  same  measure  of  honor- 
able achievement  which  has  marked  the  record  of 
the  House  of  Harper. 

THE   PAGE   COMPANY 

By  LOUIS    C.    PAGE 

President 
To  Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers, 
Franklin  Square, 

New  York  City, 

April  27,  1917 


103 


AMERICA 

A    CATHOLIC    REVIEW    OF    THE    WEEK 

55-59    EAST    83RD    STREET 

NEW    YORK 

April  28 

To  Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers 

Franklin  Square,  New  York  City. 

Harper  &  Brothers 

Many  thanks  for  your  cordial  cen- 
tenary greetings  to  the  America  Press.  May  the 
House  of  Harper  have  many  more  centuries  of 
prosperity. 

Yours  sincerely, 

THE   AMERICA   PRESS 

Per    LITERARY    EDITOR 


MOFFAT,    YARD    8b    COMPANY 

PUBLISHERS 

116-120    WEST    THIRTY    SECOND    STREET 

NEW    YORK 


Messrs.  Moffat,  Yard  85  Company  have  re- 
ceived the  Anniversary  greeting  of  Messrs.  Harper  8b 
Brothers  and  beg  to  extend  to  Messrs.  Harper  8b 
Brothers  their  best  wishes  for  the  future  prosperity 
of  the  house. 


104 


LEOPOLD    HONORE 

Bien  sinceres  remerciments. 

8,    RUE   DU    DELTA.    PARIS   (IXe.) 


PLON-NOURRIT    &   CIE. 
1MPR1MEURS-EDITEURS 

Avec  leurs  vives  felicitations. 

8,  RUE  GARANC1ERE 


•s-GRAVENHAGE 


W.    A.    PETRI 

With  best  compliments. 


C.    M.   VAN    STOCKUM 

With  best  compliments. 


THE   HAGUE 


105 


MAISON    ALFRED    MAME    ET    FILS 

With  sincere  good  wishes,  best 
thanks  and  kindest  regards. 

COURS 


FELIX   ALCAN    &    R.    LISBONNE 
EDITEURS 

Avec  leurs  meilleurs  compliments 
et  leurs  souhaits  pour  la  contin- 
uation de  la  prosperity  de  votre 
illustre  maison. 

108,    Bd.   St.-GERMAIN    (6e.) 


PERRIN    &    CIE. 
EDITEURS 

Avec  leurs  meilleurs  compliments 
et  leurs  plus  vives  felicitations. 

35.  QUA1    DES  GRANDS  AUGUSTINS,   PARIS  VIe 


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